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Cary N.C.
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UCLA
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ITA All-American Championships
Kimmi Hance (left) and Elise Wagle (Photo: ITA)
Hance, Wagle Highlight Strong ITA All-Americans Performances
September 29, 2024 | Women's Tennis
CARY, N.C. – The UCLA women's tennis team kicked off the 2024-25 season with a number of impressive performances across nine days at Cary Tennis Park, host site of the ITA-America Championships.
The tandem of Kimmi Hance and Elise Wagle shined brightest, making a run to the doubles championship match, earning an NCAA Championships spot in the process. Wins against nine nationally-ranked singles foes were recorded, while six ranked doubles pairs were taken down.
Hance and Wagle were responsible for four of the ranked doubles victories, including straight-set showings versus No. 17 Reece Carter/Alexia Jacobs of Washington in the quarterfinal round and No. 16 Jessica Alsola/Mao Mushika of California in the semifinals. The former put Hance and Wagle into November's NCAAs field.
No. 28 Ahmani Guichard and Anne-Christine Lutkemeyer advanced out of the qualifying stage with two top-100 wins, while the freshman combination of Olivia Center and Kate Fakih eliminated No. 69 Heike Janse Van Vuuren and Gracie Mulville of Kansas in a super tiebreaker.
Center and Fakih also had strong singles debuts. Center reached qualifying with three triumphs and beat No. 95 Taylor Cataldi of Wisconsin once there. Fakih also got started in prequalifying and ultimately made the main draw, defeating three ranked counterparts.
Joining Fakih in the singles main draw were No. 17 Hance, No. 83 Lutkemeyer and No. 42 Bianca Fernandez. Hance took care of business against No. 64 Alexis Blokhina of Stanford and Fernandez overcame No. 35 Sophia Biolay of UCF. Lutkemeyer downed No. 54 Jacobs in consolation play after falling to the tournament's No. 2 seed.
ITA All-American Championships
9/21-9/29/2024 at Cary, N.C. (Cary Tennis Park)
The tandem of Kimmi Hance and Elise Wagle shined brightest, making a run to the doubles championship match, earning an NCAA Championships spot in the process. Wins against nine nationally-ranked singles foes were recorded, while six ranked doubles pairs were taken down.
Hance and Wagle were responsible for four of the ranked doubles victories, including straight-set showings versus No. 17 Reece Carter/Alexia Jacobs of Washington in the quarterfinal round and No. 16 Jessica Alsola/Mao Mushika of California in the semifinals. The former put Hance and Wagle into November's NCAAs field.
No. 28 Ahmani Guichard and Anne-Christine Lutkemeyer advanced out of the qualifying stage with two top-100 wins, while the freshman combination of Olivia Center and Kate Fakih eliminated No. 69 Heike Janse Van Vuuren and Gracie Mulville of Kansas in a super tiebreaker.
Center and Fakih also had strong singles debuts. Center reached qualifying with three triumphs and beat No. 95 Taylor Cataldi of Wisconsin once there. Fakih also got started in prequalifying and ultimately made the main draw, defeating three ranked counterparts.
Joining Fakih in the singles main draw were No. 17 Hance, No. 83 Lutkemeyer and No. 42 Bianca Fernandez. Hance took care of business against No. 64 Alexis Blokhina of Stanford and Fernandez overcame No. 35 Sophia Biolay of UCF. Lutkemeyer downed No. 54 Jacobs in consolation play after falling to the tournament's No. 2 seed.
ITA All-American Championships
9/21-9/29/2024 at Cary, N.C. (Cary Tennis Park)
| Singles competition | |
| Prequalifying | |
| PQ1 | Kate Fakih (UCLA) def. Eileen Wang (Pennsylvania) 5-7, 6-0, 6-2 |
| PQ1 | Olivia Center (UCLA) def. Tina Li (Florida State) 6-0, 6-2 |
| PQ2 | Kate Fakih (UCLA) def. #123 Anna Zhang (Wake Forest) 2-6, 6-4, 6-1 |
| PQ2 | Olivia Center (UCLA) def. Maxine Murphy (Washington State) 7-5, 6-4 |
| PQ3 | Kate Fakih (UCLA) def. Tomi Main (TCU) 6-3, 6-4 |
| PQ3 | Olivia Center (UCLA) def. Mila Stanojevic (Colorado) 6-4, 7-5 |
| Qualifying | |
| Q1 | Kate Fakih (UCLA) def. #68 Lucciana Perez (Texas A&M) 6-3, 7-6 (7-1) |
| Q1 | Olivia Center (UCLA) def. #95 Taylor Cataldi (Wisconsin) 6-2, 6-7 (3-7), 6-2 |
| Q1 | #74 Elaine Chervinsky (Virginia) def. #110 Ahmani Guichard (UCLA) 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 |
| Q1 | #81 Catherine Aulia (Tennessee) def. #97 Elise Wagle (UCLA) 6-3, 6-4 |
| Q1 | #83 A. Lutkemeyer (UCLA) def. Ava Catanzarite (Oklahoma) 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 |
| Q2 | Kate Fakih (UCLA) def. #108 Gabriella Broadfoot (NC State) 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 |
| Q2 | #83 A. Lutkemeyer (UCLA) def. #96 Vivian Ovrootsky (Texas) 7-5, 6-0 |
| Qualifying Consolati | |
| QC1 | #107 Mao Mushika (California) def. #97 Elise Wagle (UCLA) 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 |
| Main Draw | |
| 64 | #17 Kimmi Hance (UCLA) def. #64 Alexis Blokhina (Stanford) 6-2, 7-6 (7-3) |
| 64 | #38 Shavit Kimchi (Duke) def. Kate Fakih (UCLA) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 |
| 64 | #42 Bianca Fernandez (UCLA) def. #35 Sophia Biolay (UCF) 6-2, 6-0 |
| 64 | #2 Dasha Vidmanova (Georgia) def. #83 A. Lutkemeyer (UCLA) 6-2, 6-4 |
| 32 | #55 Piper Charney (Michigan) def. #17 Kimmi Hance (UCLA) 7-5, 7-6 (7-2) |
| 32 | #10 Sarah Hamner (South Carolina) def. #42 Bianca Fernandez (UCLA) 7-5, 5-7, 6-4 |
| Main Draw Consolatio | |
| MDC1 | #18 C. Gomez Alonso (Arkansas) def. Kate Fakih (UCLA) 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 |
| MDC1 | #83 A. Lutkemeyer (UCLA) def. #54 Alexia Jacobs (Washington) 6-3, 6-1 |
| Doubles competition | |
| Qualifying | |
| Q1 | #28 Ahmani Guichard/A. Lutkemeyer (UCLA) def. #88 Alejandra Cruz/Given Roach (Georgia Tech) 6-1, 6-1 |
| Q1 | Olivia Center/Kate Fakih (UCLA) def. #69 H. Janse Van Vuuren/Gracie Mulville (Kansas) 6-1, 4-6, 1-0 (10-7) |
| Q2 | #28 Ahmani Guichard/A. Lutkemeyer (UCLA) def. #64 Valeria Ray/Bridget Stammel (Vanderbilt) 6-4, 6-3 |
| Q2 | #29 Celia-Belle Mohr/Sophia Webster (Vanderbilt) def. Olivia Center/Kate Fakih (UCLA) 6-4, 1-6, 1-0 (10-8) |
| Main Draw | |
| 32 | #15 Kimmi Hance/Elise Wagle (UCLA) def. #22 Julia Garcia Ruiz/Chloe Neal (Oklahoma) 6-2, 4-6, 1-0 (10-5) |
| 32 | #6 Katerina Mandelikova/Oyinlomo Quadre (FIU) def. #28 Ahmani Guichard/A. Lutkemeyer (UCLA) 7-5, 6-4 |
| 16 | #15 Kimmi Hance/Elise Wagle (UCLA) def. #58 Emma Jackson/Eleana Yu (Duke) 6-2, 6-4 |
| QF | #15 Kimmi Hance/Elise Wagle (UCLA) def. #17 Reece Carter/Alexia Jacobs (Washington) 7-6 (7-1), 6-1 |
| SF | #15 Kimmi Hance/Elise Wagle (UCLA) def. #16 Jessica Alsola/Mao Mushika (California) 6-3, 6-2 |
| F | Gabriella Broadfoot/Maddy Zampardo (NC State) def. #15 Kimmi Hance/Elise Wagle (UCLA) 6-4, 6-4 |
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